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Iskandar, 2017
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Iskandar, 2017, handmade egg tempera on panel, 240 x 720 cm
Iskandar, 2017, handmade egg tempera on panel, 240 x 720 cm
Iskandar, 2017, handmade egg tempera on panel, 240 x 720 cm
Iskandar, 2017, handmade egg tempera on panel, 240 x 720 cm
Iskandar, 2017, handmade egg tempera on panel, 240 x 720 cm
Iskandar, 2017, handmade egg tempera on panel, 240 x 720 cm
Description
Iskandar, 2017 is a large-scale painting cycle that sets the story of Alexander the Great in the contemporary Middle East. Through corresponding geographic locations, archeological sites and events, this work establishes a series of parallels between the historical legend of Iskandar and the unfolding events in the region post 9/11 to the present day- questioning the ideas of empire, occupation and religious fervor compounded by the quest for self-realization and utopian civilization.
Other Projects by Alina Gallo
Alina Gallo
MFA Alumni
Major: Sculpture
Graduation Year: 2008
Artist Statement:
I began a series of contemporary miniature paintings and large installations chronicling the events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa region and their representation in Western media in 2012 following the onset of the 'Arab Spring.'
Our digital landscape puts us in contact with a sea of fragmented and stratified documentations that come forth on social media platforms filtered by chance as well as by multiple, calculated and unknowable internal dialectics and interests.
My work samples and combines imagery and information from this multitude of raw-footage, photographs and documentary snippets, as well as from traditional media outlets, reflecting both a fragmented understanding of these accounts and the conscious and unconscious attempts to recompose a potential reality.